Donna Young

No one creates a beautiful  hybrid of classical and contemporary styles better than Donna Young. To add to her repertoire is a series of themes that span from lucid colored expressive water scenes to expansive impressionist landscapes. Read more about this amazing Washington artist below as seen from from our website Hanson Gallery Fine Art.

Lakeside

Donna Young's devotion to startling jubilant color is contagious. Inspired by the French Masters, such as Monet, Matisse and Van Gogh, Donna invigorates her canvases in dynamic immediate brushstrokes. Sparkling tones used in her lush landscapes and opulent water reflections are layered with expressive rhythm. Her scenes are poetically textured with spirited energy and allow the viewer to connect to a stunning appreciation of our natural world. Sensuous pattern, tempered with vigorous color, tell a story of an impressionist vision through the use of an abstracted contemporary approach, giving the viewer a sense of quiet harmony and space. Her experience of life, passion for color and refinement of technique combine to offer incredible works that are rich in energy, a celebration to the eye, and seem almost as timeless as nature itself.

Donna is a graduate of Burnley School of Professional Art in Seattle, WA (1976), and has exhibited constantly while received numerous artistic awards. Her visions of nature have resulted in exhibitions in major corporate headquarters as well as having earned a strong following among private collectors and celebrities.

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Carolyn Reynolds

Many years ago at the request of a client, Carolyn Reynolds created a commission incorporating gold leafing and immediately fell in love with the medium and has produced a great many works with gold or silver leaf serving as the backdrop for her beautiful and expressive paintings ever since. The mastery she wields over this delicate metal is unparalleled and this month she is being featured for the first time in our gallery alongside her son, Eon Burchman whom she has passed down this unique trade to. Where her sons work is more subtle and airy, Carolyn's work has striking contrasts and vivid colors. Here is a link to the show featuring Carolyn and her son, Familial Treasures. Also, find out more about her below from our website, www.hansongalleryfineart.com.

Carolyn has been painting, drawing and sculpting since she was a child. Graduating from University of California Irvine with a BFA Fine Art and Art History, Carolyn believes her nature themed pieces bring a healing quality, as well as a sense of well being, harmony, and tranquility through her subject matter and use of color. 

Laguna Canyon

Having been commissioned to do an Asian themed art piece Carolyn fell in love with Gold and Silverleaf as a medium. She now works almost exclusively with the medium.

The physical process begins with coating and sanding the canvas until it becomes a silky surface. Then she smooths on a traditional red paint, lays the gold or silver leaf, and coat it with layers of varnish. Using the finest quality sable brushes, Carolyn paints layer upon layer of paint and varnish developing the image until it culminates in a moment of light! Carolyn's biggest inspiration is her grandaughter who paints anything and everything she can imagine.

SITE-SPECIFIC ART AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Hyatt Valencia, Valencia, California
Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
Comerica Bank, San Francisco and Newport Beach, California
Green Valley Ranch Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
Pinnacle Resort, Lake charles, Louisiana
Avila Resort, Avila Beach , California
Ritz Carlton Resort, Dana Point, California
Checkers' Hotel, Los Angeles, California
Mariott Hotel, Anahiem, California
Doral Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Regency Hotel, San Diego, California
Del Web, Phoenix, Arizona
City of Laguna Beach, Laguna Beach, California
Bal Seal Engineering, Inc., Foothill Ranch, California
City of Fullerton, Fullerton, California
City of Santa Fe Springs, Business Park, Santa Fe Springs, California
Mariott Corporation, Scottsdale, Arizona
Four Seasons Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Omni Interlocken, Boulder Colorado
Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, Arizona
Laguna Medical Systems , Laguna Beach, Miami, New York
Baldwin Family Foundation, Newport Beach, California
Comerica Bank, San Francisco, California
Green Valley Ranch Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada


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Eon Burchman

Morning in the Vines

Creative in many forms of expression ranging from sculpture to jazz music, Eon Burchman is an diverse artist with his leafed paintings being the most accomplished of his works. Carefully applying gold or silver leaf to a specialized canvas is already an achievement in and of itself but then Eon gives the viewer a subtle and peaceful place to escape into through the application of translucent, and sometimes more opaque, layers of oil. His subject matter much of the time focuses on hummingbirds whose spiritual and majestic nature lend well  to his lofty mediums. His show, Familial Treasures, is currently taking place at Hanson Galler Fine Art in Sausalito, California. Below is an excerpt about Eon Burchman from our website, www.hansongalleryfineart.com. 

Throughout his life, Eon Burchman has surrounded himself with creativity in a family of artists and musicians. At the age of eight he picked up the guitar and began to take music as a main focus. Through High School and College Eon focused on the guitar and jazz improvisation. He also assisted his mother Carolyn Reynolds in her creative process on public art projects. These consisted of combining steel figures, fabric and various sculpture with texture mediums and painting concepts. Eon assisted Carolyn in the discovery of working with gold leaf on canvas, learning through experimentation and refinement of this process. This unique blend of medium rapidly grew in appreciation and public demand. Eon immersed himself further in technique and process and was able to partially fund his music studies, receiving a Masters in Jazz Music Studies. He eventually began to paint his own pieces working with gold leaf on canvas as a basis for his images. His work was displayed along side Carolyn at art festivals and in galleries. 

Living in Long beach CA, Eon has shown in galleries and received recognition through magazine articles and press releases. He has expressed his love and appreciation for natural landscapes and seascapes in his work on both gold and silver leaf. Even though he focuses on this multi medium, Eon continues exploring new combinations of materials and imagery to find new ways create his visions.


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Alfredo Navarro Montllor

Upon gazing into Alfredo Navarro's pieces one can see the dual nature that is the sea, its awe inspiring mystery and its tranquil beauty. As the course of the day unfolds his pieces retain their own luminescence as if they go by their own time. Having been an artist since he was a child, Navarro chose Seascapes as his dominant theme after being commissioned to do a mural while serving in the Spanish Military. Learn about Navarro the Seascape Artist below as seen from our website, Hanson Gallery Fine Art.

Blue and Calm

Alfredo Navarro was born on the eastern coast of Spain in the city of Alcoy (Alicante) in 1965. Initially inspired by his father, Navarro attended the art school of Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes at a young age. He continued his education in Valencia where he received a degree in economics at the Valencia Univeristy as well as an art degree from Circulo de Bellas Artes.

He then returned to Alcoy to paint and apprentice under the painter/teacher Selles. Also a painter, Navarro’s father taught his son the techniques of oil painting. Navarro’s younger brother accepted their father’s art training, too. At age 19, Navarro began painting professionally and in 1986 received first place in an art exhibition sponsored by the Government Delegate of Galicia in Galicia, Spain.

Navarro considers his technique somewhere between Realism and Hyperrealism. His studies provided an admiration for the artists Velazquez, Picasso and Greco. Navarro respects Velazquez for the artist’s ability to capture the soul of a person in a portrait and the colors and atmosphere used to create the paintings. Picasso and Greco are admired for their bold creativity and expressive colors. Such creativity, expressive colors and atmosphere can be found in Navarro’s striking sunsets, sweeping seas and foaming waves. Inspired by the vastness of both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, Navarro paints seascapes of undulation as well as seascapes of tranquility. With great artistic emotion and power, he captures waves crashing against rock formations. He paints translucent waves gently rolling into shore as the evening’s sunset pierces through the water. His calm seas mesmerize viewers with the ocean’s expanse, or the feeling of a warm sun dancing on the water, or an endless horizon.


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Thomas Easley

Self taught, Thomas Easley is one of the most prolific artists of our time. Having lived in numerous places throughout the world, he seized each opportunity to explore a new form of artistic expression that has led him to become accomplished in a myriad of styles and forms of subject matter that range from minuatures to realism and from nudes to abstract expressionism; he is modern renaissance man. Below is more about the artist  from our website, www.hansongalleryfineart.com. 

Tall in the Morning Light

Thomas Easley was born in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains where he spent his youth enjoying the deep woods and grand vistas in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.

Easley did not go to art school. He is a self-taught artist whose successful career spanning 30 years and three continents has taken him from the snow capped Sierras of his childhood to the verdant hills of England, the canals of Venice and the banks of the holy Ganges in India.

Each location has provided Easley with insight for his inquisitive mind and inspirationfor his blend of painting styles and techniques: In England he painted illuminations, miniatures and portraits, in Italy he painted nudes, architectural landscapes and floral still life, India’s mysticism made him delve into dimensional realism, surrealism and allegorical works.
Since Easley’s return to the United States, he has focused on wine still life paintings that are reminiscent of the warmly lit rich style of European masters and energetic roosters filled with attitude and elegance. He also paints textured cityscapes, landscapes and sensual nudes in his Extreme Impressionism style.

Easley lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two sons.

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Adair Payne

The Dance of Autumn

Nobody can capture landscapes in breath taking fashion quite like Adair Payne. Combining his lifelong passion for nature with his background in graphic arts Adair captures with meticulous accuracy the beauty and spirit of the landscape. He has the unique ability to present us with scenery that balances the conditions of light and shadow in such a way that it grabs our heart and pierces our soul, much in the same way as if we were right there. The following about this artist's fascinating history is from our website, www.hansongalleryfineart.com.

Adair Payne is native of Northern California, from the community of Lincoln in the Sierra Nevada foothills northeast of Sacramento. He began painting the local countryside at an early age, being commissioned by local collectors and land-owners. While his creative direction was unusual in the time and place of his youth, he was compelled to speak for the land, calling attention to the natural world around him.

Taking a brief hiatus from creative work just after high school, Payne served a voluntary mission for his church in Argentina for two years. He then resumed his artistic education with a major in graphic design. In spite of his connection with the land, at that time he preferred the idea of a busy and interactive creative environment instead of the solitary work of a studio painter.

After receiving his BFA from Brigham Young University, and after a brief stint as a graphic designer in Los Angeles, Payne was hired as an artist and graphic designer by the an agency in Washington, DC. Before too long Payne preferred to be back in the wide open space of the West. He then gradually moved into a career in commercial illustration, specializing in colorful and lavishly illustrated story maps for corporate clients as well as the tourism industry. A short list of his favorite clients includes Crystal Cruises, Visa, Intel, Honda, Chrysler, Delta Airlines, Lucent Technologies, and Motorola.

In more recent years, Payne's career has come full-circle back to his roots, now focusing his energy entirely on painting his native landscape. His objective is to record the visual impressions of a rich, unique, and gentle land that is quickly becoming increasingly developed and exploited. 

The artist's philosophy is fairly straight-forward, motivated by a deep connection to the land that nourished his spirit and body from the beginning, returning something of appreciation which he hopes inspires others who contemplate the Northern California landscape. Consistently, Payne's finished art has a pervasive sense of tranquility, reverence for the natural world, and often an element of solitude and retreat.

Payne is fairly obsessive about the emotional effects of light on the landscape. Typically, very early morning light and very late sunlight are his preference, though he's also fascinated with the moodiness of fog and California's seasonal thick, humid atmosphere.

While he is essentially self-taught as a painter, his approach to painting has evolved over a lifetime, influenced and informed by years as a graphic designer and illustrator. A viewer may first notice the artist's attention to detail. However, the overall design, the visual energy of the composition and its emotional impact are his key concerns as he begins work. He is equally versatile in watercolor and acrylic, but his large landscape work is always executed in oil since it provides the ideal working properties for his preferred subject matter and style.


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Gail Morris

The beautiful minimal landscapes of Gail Morris evoke the impressionable, the essence of a place as one would remember in their mind’s eye. Gail had the unique fortune of having a background in the commercial industry that allowed her to accumulate a lifetime of inspiration scouting the California landscape so that when she poured her heart into her work she was ripe with ideas of elegant shapes and vivid colors. As a preservationist she wants the viewer to sense the same awe and splendor of the wide open environment that she does. Below is an excerpt from our website: www.hansongalleryfineart.com.

Santa Clarita

Landscape painter, Gail Morris, has won many prestigious awards for her paintings. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. Morris' work as a visual artist has taken her on a number of extraordinary adventures around the globe, from the Navajo lands in New Mexico to the Dogon villages of West Africa. She is a member of numerous art and environmental groups that are dedicated to the preservation of agricultural lands and open space. Morris currently resides in California with her husband and their two children.


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